January 31, 2013

GIVEAWAY with Beaducation Academy!

~~~~~~~~~~~~ This giveaway is now closed. Click HERE to see who won! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We are really excited about Beaducation Academy. And the feedback we have gotten lets us know that you are too! We want to give everyone a chance to join us for these live classes. What better way than with a GIVEAWAY?!

Entering is easy! Do any one of the four things below, or do them all for extra chances to win! Just make sure to report back on the blog and let us know that you did each of them. 1) Leave a comment on this blog post revealing the first jewelry making class you ever took. 2) Click on over to our Facebook page and leave a comment on the giveaway post there. 4) Follow @beaducation on Twitter. 3) Share our Facebook post on your page, letting your friends know about it.

The winner will be drawn randomly and announced on Thursday, February 7 at 10 AM PST.

My first class was simply learning to string beads, use crimps and different kinds of clasps. It was the start of something big! I have branched out to metal stamping, riveting, working with wire and etching. It is all so much fun! I have enjoyed your classes!

Have not taken a class yet jut getting started in the metal. Have been making beaded jewelry for a couple years now but just learned with books and the Internet Can not wait to take. Class or a few in metal working and stamping.

My high school had a jewelry making class where we learned to solder among other things - I made a really cool cowboy boot pendant and a beautiful wire bracelet!! I would love to take the soldering class and get my skills back up!!!

If you count "classes" with family for free then my dad taught me alot of Indian beading styles including the loom(and leather) when i was like 11-12. official classes i would have to say the ones the first year i went to texas beaders retreat 7 years ago(I can't remember which they were now)

I posted on FB & shared the link. As a long time customer & huge fan, I would be super jazzed at win ANY of these! I always learn something new & get inspired by your classes & products. My first project was a simple strung bead bracelet & now thanks to you guys I'm doing metalwork , enameling & more

The first class that I took was at a newly opened bead shop named The Beadery in the Adirondack Mountains. It was in a small town named Inlet, where we vacation each summer. The class was a basic stringing class where we created a watch band. I had just started making jewelry and signed myself up along with my mother-in-law, who had never made jewelry before. We made a tradition of signing up for a class at The Beadery each summer during our vacation week. To our disappointment, the shop closed up three years later. The owner lived in Arizona the other three seasons and wanted to permanently retire there. But for a few years, the small town of Inlet had the privileged of having it's own bead shop!

My first official class was a bead class with Jill Wiseman and she was teaching her Pitaya Necklace. I had been Internet & book taught until then. It was fun. But wire & metal working are more my thing. :)

When I was 11 my aunt and older cousins taught me how to make beaded jewelry in the Greenlandish style, from Danish magazines. I consider this one of my most important classes since it had a profound and lifechanging effect on me. Thank you, Ruth!

Its hard to remember - which came first? It was beading, I did it in Crazy Quilt blocks, not jewelry, at first. I wanted more on the blocks so I signed up for a beaded bracelet class - which used CRYSTALS...well there started my addiction, lol.

My very first class was a beading/wire session in Myrtle Beach, SC. several years ago. My first Beaducation class was the metal stamping, and I'm totally hooked! Beaducation has the best classes, with easy to follow instructions, and practical tips. Since I have two 4 year olds at home(and a lot of interruptions! :)), I love that each class is broken into segments that can be replayed. I wish I lived close enough to come to the hands on classes. I'm sure it will be an amazing weekend!

I'll consider my first jewelry-making class to be in sixth grade (Roosevelt Elementary, Spokane, WA... 1976), when we spent a week learning how to do enameling. I made a couple of things, including a necklace of an angel fish -- and it just seemed like magic... how we were using powders, metals and a torch, to make these gorgeous colorful professional-looking pieces! It really inspired me as to what a jewelry-artisan could create!

I have never taken a class. This is something I always wanted to learn. I have called all around my area and can't find anyone that offers any kind of beading classes. I don't know how I saw your post on Facebook but it was meant to be. Now I know that I can get some guidance even if its online.

My first class was a wire wrap. Loved it and was hooked! Hoping I win since just had ankle surgery and down for 2 weeks. What better way to pass the time than to take a couple of classes? Can't think of anything better!

I learned the art of enameling from my mom growing up and started making enamel jewelry with her as an adult- I learned a lot of extras from online videos (thank you!) would love to take a more formal metal smithing workshop!

How I got started: I went to a local yard sale and there were Two Elderly ladys set up by a school haveing a sale, all they were selling were these stretchy bracelets that they had made, I loved them and got to looking at them and said I'd love to make some of these and they proceeded to tell me how and what to use and that's what started my jewelry making days, my new hobby. That was 9 years ago and I am still creating new things and making jewelry. I would LOVE to get into soldering ,etc, new avenues of jewelry making and would love some classes on it.

My first class was Silversmithing at Cambridge Adult Ed & i missed half of the 10 week course BUT while buying supplies i saw an article on lampworking & the first chance i got i took a class. That was 24 years ago and i make my living selling lampwork jewelry!

I dig your classes because when i decide to take a class i don't want the social aspect ((no chit chat please!)) i just want the class....

My first class was a general jewelry making class here locally I shared with my husband 3 years ago. It was great because boy he is waaay more creative and has better technique than I do! He loves it and so do I, so now I get him interested in the Beaducation classes and we learn more! Fun together.